Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 7:03:58 pm
The latest video by Benny and Rafi Fine shows a group of teenagers talking about Rick Perry's now-infamous anti-gay advertisement "Strong." Funny stuff!

Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:06:33 pm
Hate group leader Pamela Geller is losing it over Wordpress.com shutting down the "Bare Naked Islam" anti-Muslim blog: BNI SHUT DOWN AGAIN, HAMAS-TIED CAIR DOES VICTORY DANCE!!!!! - Atlas Shrugs. After ranting about the threats she has received (as if that somehow excuses threats against other people), Geller concludes her babbling ...

Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:33:08 am
Jim "Dim" Hoft and company are upset that "Bare Naked Islam" has been taken down after a CAIR complaint and FBI investigation. (Note: I'm not a big fan of CAIR as they also have a history of hyper-sensitivity, some bad associations, and in the past they sent the FBI after ...

Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 4:03:55 pm
My earlier post about the latest attempt by Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller to drum up hatred for Muslims by inventing an "honor killing" apparently got under the bigots' skins, leading to this exchange on Twitter in which Spencer and Geller spew insults and make up conspiracy theories about me. ...

Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:16:48 am
The so-called "counter-jihad" bloggers are covering themselves in glory again, slobbering and ranting and trying to take advantage of a terrible crime to advance their un-American agenda. Same bigotry, different day. This time they've seized on a story about a man in Texas who killed six members of his own family on ...

Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 10:29:03 am
It's horrifying to hear almost all the GOP presidential candidates proudly saying that victims of rape or incest should be forced to give birth to an attacker's child. There's nothing that makes the utter heartlessness of this fanatical agenda more evident, and now Rick Perry (who previously supported rape/incest exceptions) ...

Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 5:40:19 pm
The radical anti-choice movement called "Personhood" is holding a "National Presidential Pro-Life Forum" tonight in Iowa, sponsored by a collection of the farthest right religious groups in America. Attending this gathering of fanatics: Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and Rick Perry. It's being broadcast on the radio show of Iowa ...

Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:32:18 pm
Imagine my surprise that more evidence of Ron Paul's long history of racism and far right fear-mongering is now coming to light. Reuters has unearthed a blatantly racist and homophobic direct-mail advertisement for the infamous Ron Paul newsletters: In ad for newsletter, Ron Paul forecast race war. A direct-mail solicitation ...

Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 1:09:36 pm
The religious right's misogynistic "Personhood" bill may have been defeated by voters in Mississippi (one of the most conservative states in the nation), but that hasn't stopped GOP presidential candidates Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Rick Perry from co-signing a pledge to support the ultimate anti-choice ideology. In a ...

Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:20:49 am
We've been covering Ron Paul's racist past and far right connections for years at LGF; kudos to the mainstream media for finally starting to catch up: Paul's story changes on racial comments. WASHINGTON – Rep. Ron Paul has tried since 2001 to disavow racist and incendiary language published in Texas ...

Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 6:08:31 pm
I'm seeing news reports like this nearly every day, as the Republican Party sinks ever deeper into nihilistic science-denial: Pair of NASA studies reaffirm impact of global warming. In recent research, Mr. Hansen and co-author Makiko Sato, also of Goddard Institute for Space Studies, compared the climate of today, the ...

Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:06:14 pm
This afternoon, MSNBC ran an above the fold photo showing a Navy sailor kissing her partner as the first sailor off their ship. That, by itself isn't particularly newsworthy. Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta, left, kisses her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell, at Joint ...

Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:05:06 am
The New York Times has gotten around to reporting on Ron Paul's political newsletters that contained numerous racist, anti-gay and anti-Israel passages. These are newsletters that are well known to LGF readers, but it's well past time for the Times to report on these newsletters. The latest issue of The ...

Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:48:32 pm
If I didn't know about Ron Paul's far right and neo-Confederate connections, and his history of blatantly racist newsletters, and everything else about him, I'd probably be giving him kudos right now for telling the unvarnished truth about Michele Bachmann (and most of the rest of the GOP field too, ...

Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 1:24:57 pm
As we noted yesterday, Media Matters pointed out that a Nazi-era antisemitic cartoon had been used as an illustration at Andrew Breitbart's "Big Journalism" website on at least three occasions in the past year: Andrew Breitbart's 'Big Journalism' Bloggers Use Antisemitic Nazi-Era Cartoon. It's fascinating to see how controversies like this ...

Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:34:58 am
It's hot wingnut on wingnut action, as Redstate.com's head loon Erick Erickson links to a piece by plagiarist Ben Domenech, explaining why they now hate the National Review: National Review: “they lived long enough for us to see them become the villain.” Most observers presumed the magazine would endorse Romney ...

Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:31:48 am
Once again, Republican politicians are pandering to the lowest, most bigoted element of society with an unnecessary, clearly discriminatory bill that would ban shariah law from Pennsylvania courts. Shariah law is not currently being used by Pennsylvania courts, and in fact the US Constitution specifically bans such a thing and has ...

Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:30:10 pm
The yawning chasm between the Republican establishment and the Fox News Tea Party base has never been more obvious, as National Review laments: We fear that to nominate former Speaker Newt Gingrich would be to blow the opportunity to win the White House next year.

Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:55:40 am
Newt Gingrich irritated a lot of fundamentalists when he refused to sign the "Marriage Vow" pledge pushed on the Republican candidates by Iowa's radical religious right group "The Family Leader" (whose leader Bob Vander Plaats is a Birther). Now, instead of signing it, Gingrich has sent The Family Leader a lengthy ...

Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:25:33 am
Yes, believe it or don't, the anti-Muslim hate bloggers are still ranting themselves into a sweat over the imminent threat of stealth jihad Creeping Halal Butterball suicide turkeys. American Thinker (most ironic name on the Internets) writer William Sullivan is outraged over the treatment hate group leader Pamela Geller has received, ...

Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:41:46 pm
Speaking today at the Republican Jewish Coalition's Presidential Candidates Forum, Newt Gingrich announced that for Secretary of State, his pick would be John Bolton. Yes, that would be the same John Bolton who wrote the foreword for the deranged anti-Obama book by hatebloggers Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, The Post-American Presidency: ...

Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:10:06 pm
Remember when GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman called out his Republican opponents for rejecting the science of evolution and climate change? That was just last August. In the three months since then, he's apparently decided to throw in his lot with the anti-science wing of the GOP. Speaking today at the ...

Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:09:48 am
This is excellent - so many of the things Charles and other LGF members have been saying for two years, and backed up by boots-on-the-ground investigative journalism: Heads in the Sand. The entire piece is so good, I had a hard time choosing which sections to excerpt: But it's rare to ...

Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:48:00 am
Just when you think you've seen the utter depths of Republican cynicism, along comes a right wing flack like Frank Luntz to take it even lower: How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street. Luntz is now advising the Republican Governors Association on how to properly lie to ...

Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:13:26 pm
Just to drive home the point that the Republican Party has become the anti-science bad craziness party, Michele Bachmann came out today and joined Rick Santorum in calling for creationism to be taught in public school science classes. BACHMANN: I think what you’re advocating for is censorship on the part ...